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Week 6: February 15–21, 2010
Theme: Many baas & ^^^^: An ecological lens
This is a week for reflection and consolidation. We intend to put here issues that come up during the first 5 weeks and address them in the context of the five lenses from our course text by Mark Pegrum. Of course, our participants might have other ideas. In that case, we'll go with the flow.
Impacts of technology with anticipated time-to-adoption 1 year, 2-3 years, and 3-5 years
What directions and tangents might multiliteracies and educational technology take in the coming years?
Let's start with the past. Here Stephen Downes updates some predictions from ten years ago ...
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on_16.html
Her last resource cited is the Future of the Internet III from the Pew Internet and American Life Project
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2009_predictions_across_the_we.php
How might the following impact education with respect to multiliteracies?
Technology stakeholders and critics were asked in an online survey to assess scenarios about the future social, political, and economic impact of the Internet and they said the following:
• The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the
world in 2020.
• The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily
yield more personal integrity. social tolerance, or forgiveness.
• Talk and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by
2020.
• Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in
a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content
without payment.
• The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual
reality will be further erased for everyone who’s connected, and the results will be mixed in terms
of social relations.
• “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current Internet architecture is
more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.
ePortfolios
Jennifer Verschoor found some nice examples of eportolios and posted them to our YahooGroup list
Nelba Quintana has a very sleek ePortfolio which she has shared: